Maigret: Collect a dossier on a person by username from thousands of sites

Post by paledot » Mon, Oct 03, 2022, 12:55 PM UTC

BuyMyBitcoins wrote: post #77

orange_fritter wrote: post #75

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What's the benefit? It sounds like you might have to explain yourself one day if someone posts something racist/horrible.

I look at it differently, even if someone isn’t going around posting racist/horrible things, people and tastes change over time. I’ve been a part of fandoms that are now seen as cringey or toxic. I’ve also grown up more as a person and I look back at a lot of my old comments as sophomoric. I write differently, and my opinions on things have changed as well. I’ve had people dig through my post history on sites like Re…

Post by bee_rider » Mon, Oct 03, 2022, 1:11 PM UTC

eurasiantiger wrote: post #76

bee_rider wrote: post #10

Well, that is creepy as hell, but I guess it is obvious that such a tool could exist, and it is better not to have it exclusively in the hands of data-brokers, etc. I wonder how hard it would be to add the functionality: go back to the email address that has registered these accounts, find any other names they've registered, and search off those. (EDIT: err, wait, I bet that's the "recursive" functionality they menti…

You have probably already clicked ”accept”[1] on one of those ”cookie notices” which actually make you give your consent to having your data processed and all your profiles and devices linked by hundreds, if not thousands of companies all over the world. [1]: more accurately, you didn’t go through the list of all vendors and didn’t object to their ”legitimate interests”, if that was even an option.

Post by Closi » Mon, Oct 03, 2022, 1:25 PM UTC

c7b wrote: post #140

smeagull wrote: post #25

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You always need to balance Precision and Recall. For something like this, you want to be exhaustive. I've worked on search engines, and depending on who is using them, that balance gets struck differently on the ROC curve. For legal matters, for example, they want every record that might match. For ad-hoc (google style) queries, nobody reads the second page so you care more about Precision @ 20 (or really, at 3)

> You always need to balance Precision and Recall. For something like this, you want to be exhaustive. Respectfully disagree. You're right in principle if you build a tool like that for yourself. But since this is Open Source, you have to take into account that people who don't understand that will use the tool as well and then use that as "evidence" in whatever arguments they're having with someone.

Post by hota_mazi » Mon, Oct 03, 2022, 2:01 PM UTC

P5fRxh5kUvp2th wrote: post #33

romeoblade wrote: post #31

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My Gmail is first.last name. I get very sensitive documents for a lawyer with my same name who resides in Texas. We've actually had some decent conversations over the years.

I had that happen once. It was a recipt for a medical purchase, at first I thought I was getting scammed. What tipped me off was the email was sent to firstnamelastname@gmail.com and NOT firstname.lastname@gmail.com. That was the day I realized google would even do that. I ended up using the phone number in the email to contact the person and forwarded the email. And yes, they had my first and last name :)

Post by microtherion » Mon, Oct 03, 2022, 2:12 PM UTC